The victim was struck on the head by a steel header of a
soccer goal post while he and two friends climbed and played on it. The
accident was fatal.

#10

891006CAA1005

09/27/89

7 year old male

Plastow,
NH School Playground

Death

The victim was struck and killed by a goal post tipped
over by a fellow schoolmate lifting the rear of the frame.

#11

910806CCC1669

09/30/89

19 year old male

Binghampton,
NY

School Soccer Field

Serious Injury

Goalie had soccer goal blown on top of her by a gust of
wind. She suffered stress fractures to both legs.

#12

891023CWE5006

10/14/89

3 year old male

Orinda,
CA

Local Sports Field

Death

While attempting to remove a net from its goal post, the victim's
father lifted the back base causing the goal post to tip over and strike the
victim on the head, causing a fatal injury.

#13

910719CCC1621

06/02/90

8 year old male

Fayetteville,
NC

Municipal Field

Death

Victim was fatally injured when the portable soccer goal
he was climbing tipped over and struck him in the head.

#14

920630CCC1475

10/08/90

9 year old male

Wilburham,
MA

Municipal Field

Serious Injury

A young boy broke his femur when a portable goal
fell on him.

#15

910729CCC1641

11/06/90

9 year old male

Lakewood,
NJ

Public Soccer Field

Death

Victim was fatally injured when standing next to a soccer
goal that was toppled over by a strong gust of wind.

#16

901204CWE5003

11/10/90

22 year old male

McFarland,
CA

PublicPark

Death

While doing chin-ups, goal post top bar became loose and
fell onto victim's head causing his death.

#17

910509HCC1242

04/20/91

8 year old male

Aiken,
SC

Public Park & Fields

Death

Victim was struck and killed by a soccer goal that was
being set up for a game.

#18

910528CEP9002

05/15/91

11 year old male

Rockingham,
NC

MunicipalPark

Serious Injury

While swinging on goal, it fell on top of the victim
causing severe internal injuries and subsequent removal of part of her liver.

#19

921130CWE4018

07/18/92

5 year old male

Mililani,
HI

School Field

Serious Injury

Group of children playing and climbing on a soccer goal,
tipped it onto the child sitting nearby, breaking his femur.

#20

930104CWE5004

08/05/90

5 year old female

Ephrata,
WA

MunicipalPark

Death

Attempting to lift a mobile soccer goal, it fell and
struck victim on the head, killing her.

#21

920910CCC3621

09/15/89

9 year old male

Santa Rosa,
CA

Municipal Park & Field

Serious Injury

Victim sustained a fractured pelvis when other
children pushed a metal soccer goal onto him.

#22

921030CCC3039

09/07/89

9 year old female

Guerneville,
CA

MunicipalPark

Serious Injury

Victim was sitting on the soccer goal structure, when it toppled
and fell, fracturing her right forearm.

#23

930917CCN2507

09/23/91

10 year old male

Kennesaw,
GA

Private
Soccer

Field

Serious Injury

The victim was playing goalie during a practice game, when
some other children ran into the net, pulling the goal over and on top
of the victim. The victim suffered a fractured skull and facial
injuries.

#24

930505CCN1550

02/09/92

15 year old male

Columbus,
GA

Public School Field

Serious Injury

The victim was doing chin-ups on the cross bar attempting
to flip over the goal, when the goal tipped over and landed on the left side
of victim's head causing injuries. The victim has fully recovered.

#25

930405CCN1307

03/19/93

12 year old male

Warner Robbins, GA

School Field

Serious Injury

The victim has permanent brain damage due to a soccer goal
falling onto him when other children ran against the net pushing the goal on
top of him.

#26

930608CCN1816

06/06/93

9 year old male

Atlanta,
GA

Municipal Recreation Area

Death

The deceased and a friend were shooting soccer goals when
the goal tipped over and onto the victim's chest pinning him to the
ground.

#27

931027CAA3053

09/04/93

10 year old male

Humble, TX

PrivatePark

Death

The boy and his two friends were playing
around the goal when the boy's foot became caught in the netting,
toppling the goal onto the boy killing him.

#28

940418CCC3433

04/00/81

11 year old male

Burnsville,
MN

MunicipalPark

Serious Injury

The boy and his friend were using the soccer goal for a
football goal post and the victim, in an attempt to tackle his friend who was
hanging from the vertical cross beam, caused the goal to fall onto him,
causing a head injury.

#29

940607CAA2525

10/04/88

11 year old male

Bay City,
MI

Intermediate School Field

Serious Injury

The accident occurred on a dare when two boys and two
girls tried to lift the 320 lb goal, tipping it over onto the victim causing
head, leg and hip injuries.

#30

940425CEP9001

04/09/94

8 year old female

Haverford,
PA

MunicipalPark

Serious Injury

The victim sustained an injury to her abdomen when a goal
she was hanging on fell on her.

#31

940411CWE4006

03/1/94

15 year old male

Phoenix,
AZ

Moon Valley High School Field

Serious Injury

A track team member was swinging from the crossbar of a
400 lb metal soccer goal, when the crossbar came loose and was about to
strike the coach beneath it; the victim broke his arm trying to stop
the incident and the goal pinned him to the ground.

#32

940525CAA3492

09/12/93

5 year old female

Woodenville,
WA

LakeSammammishState
Park

Serious Injury

Someone climbing on the net of the goal caused the top bar
to fall onto the victim breaking her tibia.

#33

940613CAA3542

11/27/90

10 year old male

Phoenix,
AZ

Public School Playing Field

Serious Injury

Four boys were playing around the soccer goal; two were
hanging from the crossbar (24' section) causing it to tip over onto the
victim, striking him in the head causing brain damage.

#34

940614CEP9001

06/01/94

8 year old male

Tucson,
AZ

MunicipalPark

Serious Injury

The victim sustained a fractured right forearm, when
the goal he was swinging from tipped over and the crossbar struck him.

#35

940928CAA1888

9/21/94

7 year old female

Frederick,
MD

Whittier Soccer Field

Serious Injury

Another child was hanging or climbing the soccer goal
crossbar, when the goal tipped over, the victim, who was in front of the goal
was struck on the face, suffering bruises and contusions. The victim
was treated and released at a local hospital.

#36

940928CAA1889

9/4/94

8 year old male

Sebring,
FL

MaryHollandPark

Death

The victim sustained a fatal head injury, when he and
other children were moving a soccer goal, end over end, in preparation for a
game.

#37

941005CAA2001

10/3/94

12 year old male

Waterford Township,
MI

Municipal Park & Fields

Death

The victim and two friends were playing soccer on an
auxiliary field. The victim climbed to the top crossbar and then, from
the center of the bar, asked his friends to push the goal forward so he could
jump off. His foot became caught and he was crushed at the head and
chest by the heavy goal, when it toppled onto him.

#38

941129CAA3121

8/14/93

14 year old male

Midland,
TX

MunicipalPark

Death

Soccer goal over-turned in late afternoon (4:15pm) trapping the victim
underneath. Victim died from thoracic injuries.

#39

950125CAA1283

10/08/94

12 year old male

Burlington,
NC

MunicipalPark

Serious Injury

The victim rode his bike under the soccer goal and grabbed
the crossbar, tipping the goal over and hitting the victim in back of
the neck and lacerating his trachea. Surgery and hospitalization were
required.

Victim was sitting under an unanchored soccer goal, when
another child climbed on the goal causing it to topple onto the victim
breaking his thigh bone.

#42

950329CEP9001

3/13/95

13 year old male

Tucson,
AZ

School Playground

Serious Injury

Victim sustained a concussion and
laceration to the back of his head, when a soccer goal, which children
were swinging on fell over and struck him from behind.

#43

950620CCC1807

11/13/88

13 year old male

Newark,
NJ

MunicipalPark near St. Benedict's
School

Serious Injury

The boy was chinning himself on the crossbar of the goal
[doing a pull-up]. When the goal began to tip over and he let go and
fell. The goal came down on his side fracturing 2 ribs and
damaging his spleen and liver. He was hospitalized.

#44

960131CAA3348

9/23/93

13 year old male

Red Bluff, CA

Public School Playground

Serious Injury

The victim was playing in the area of the goal when it tipped
over and struck him from behind, breaking his neck and causing paralysis.

#45

960522CBB5185

8/27/95

31 year old male

Athens,
TN

AthensRegionalPark

Death

The victim was playing soccer and somehow he pulled the
crossbar onto his abdomen. He died from liver damage and internal
hemorrhage.

#46

960403CEP9005

3/27/96

15 year old female

Pittsburg,
PA

High School Soccer Field

Serious Injury

The victim was moving a mobile soccer goal from the
baseball field after practice, when the goal fell onto the her foot.
She was treated and released at a local hospital.

#47

960611CAA5242

5/28/96

13 year old male

Houston,
TX

PublicPark

Serious Injury

The victim was helping to hang the net on the mobile
goal. It was not anchored and the goal toppled onto the victim causing
both external and internal injuries. The victim was admitted to the
hospital.

#48

960614CAA5253

3/30/94

16 year old female

Yakima,
WAEastValley
HS

Playing Field

Serious Injury

The victim was playing goalie, she took off her
petty-jersey and hung it on the crossbar of the goal. When she went to
retrieve it, she pulled the goal over onto her, striking her in the head.

#49

960821CAA5542

5/31/92

9 year old male

Oak Park,
IL

PublicPark

Serious Injury

The victim and his sister were righting a mobile soccer
goal, which weighed over 200 lbs, when it toppled and struck the victim.

#50

960823CAA5552

04/15/93

12 year old male

Columbia,
SC

PublicElementary School

Serious Injury

The victim and playmates were trying to dunk a basketball
over the crossbar of the unanchored steel soccer goal, when it toppled onto
the victims chest. The victim was hospitalized for 6 days and has
suffered permanent injuries.

#51

960927HEP0721

9/24/96

7 year old male

Greencastle,
PA

Public Recreation

Facility

Serious Injury

A soccer goal toppled onto the victim when another child
ran into the net. The victim was cut in the forehead by the crossbar
and received stitches at a local hospital and was released.

#52

961002HEP9020

9/12/96

7 year old male

Elon College,
NC

Municipal Sports Field

Serious Injury

A soccer goal toppled onto the victim, causing injury to
his chest and ribs, when he was hanging from the crossbar during a
game. The victim's mother said if the goal had been anchored properly
the incident wouldn't have happened.

#53

961125HEP9003

11/20/96

9 year old male

Cathey's Valley, CA

Public Field

Serious Injury

The victim fractured his elbow when the mobile soccer goal
he and some teammates were moving in preparation for a game fell on
him.

#54

970716CCC1371

6/15/97

6 year old male

Wallaceburg,
CANADA

Death

Tip-over of a home made, unanchored soccer goal caused the
death of this 6 year old male.

#55

980518CAA5568

10/7/97

7 year old male

Private School Field

Stockbridge, GA

Injury

The victim sustained minor head injuries when classmates
pulled the metal goal over and on to him. There were no anchoring
devices.

#56

971125CCC1698

4/29/97

9 year old male

MunicipalParkJoliette, Montreal, CANADA

Serious Injury

The victim sustained serious head trauma and permanent
physical and mental incapacity after a 100 Kilogram soccer, fell on
him. He was hanging from the crossbar. Anchors and a chain had
been removed by vandals prior to the incident.

#57

971125CCC1699

3/1/97

11 year old male

Indoor Sports Arena

Riviore des Prairies

CANADA

Serious Injury

The victim - a soccer goalie - was struck by a falling
goal, suffering severe head trauma and residual brain injury.

#58

980513CCN0279

5/8/98

10 year old male

ChampionCityPark,
Oconomowoc, WI

Serious Injury

The victim was standing in front of a goal being moved by
pushing by his team mates. The goal toppled onto the victim severing
his spine. He is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak.

This 'homemade' soccer goal was being hung on by the victim
and 2 friends. The goal was not anchored. When the friends ran
away as the goal began to fall, it struck the victim in the face and
hand. Victim suffered a broken jaw.

#61

970403CEP9054

3/27/97

8 year old female

Dublin,
OH

School Playing Field

Serious Head Injury

The victim was playing goalie on the soccer team when a
strong wind blew the unanchored goal post onto here head and then into the
ground causing a serious concussion and hospitalization.

#62

981013HWE5008

9/24/98

11 year old male

Sacremento,
CA

Public School Playing Field

Serious Head Injury

The victim was hit on the head by the metal soccer goal
while other team members were moving it on the field. The goal was not
anchored prior to its being moved. The victim was treated and admitted
to the hospital.

#63

980601CBB3845

1/31/97

26 year old male

Carson,
CA

PublicSports & RecreationPark

Serious Facial Injury

The victim was playing goalie on the soccer team when his hand
hit the top bar in a save attempt. The bar fell striking him on the
face breaking his nose. The goal was not anchored nor was the crossbar
fastened securely.

#64

981022CAA2027

9/30/98

9 year old male

Deerfield,
IL

CityPark

Serious Facial Injury

The victim was doing pull-ups on the crossbar when it came
loose the struck him in the face and mouth. The goal wasn't anchored,
yet labels were on the Kwik Goal to "secure/anchor/do not climb"
goals.

#65

990608HEP2401

6/4/99

8 year old male

Pigeon, MI

PublicPark

Death

The victim and some other children where hanging from
crossbar, when goal tipped over crushing victims head.

#66

991118CCC2072

9/1/92

11 year old male

Bardstown,
KY

Public elementary school field

Serious head injury

A home made goal toppled onto the victim while practicing
soccer with some teammates.

#67

000707CEP9001

12/05/99

7 year old female

Tucson,
AZ

HimmelPublicPark

Serious Injury

Three girls were playing around a metal soccer goal which
was not set up, in an attempt to raise the posts, the 7 year old was left
hanging from the crossbar, when she let go and fell to the ground she broke
her left wrist.

#68

000711CEP9011

5/20/00

10 year old male

Greensboro,
NC

Public soccer field

Serious head injury

During a soccer match, the victim left the field and went
to an area near an unused soccer goal, which toppled over and struck him in
the back of the head. The victim was treated and released at a local
hospital.

#69

001026CAA2053

4/14/99

14 year old female

Midland,
MI

School soccer field

Serious Injury

The victim had very serious leg and hip fractures when the
wind blew the unsecured or inadequately secured soccer goal on top of her.

#70

001102CAA2074

3/17/00

9 year old male

FortMadison, IO

Elementary School Field

Serious facial injury

The victim was standing near the inadequately anchored soccer
when other children played on it and hung from it, the anchor did not prevent
the ‘homemade’ steel goal from fall to the ground and striking the victim in
the head and face, shattering his teeth.

#71

001127CAA2110

10/5/00

17 year old male

Chicago,
IL

Brother Rice H.S. Soccer Field

Head injury

The victim was playing goalie on the soccer team when a
gust of wind blew the unanchored soccer goal off the ground, the crossbar
struck the victim in the forehead. He was treated and released.

#72

000711CEP9012

3/25/00

8 year old female

Coatesville,
PA

Elementrary Public School Field

Arm and elbow injury

During a schedule soccer practice the victim was climbing a
soccer goal and sliding down, when she suffered contusions and abrasions to
her elbow. She was treated and released at a local hospital.

#73

010130CCC3153

8/20/98

33 year old male

Albuquerque,
NM

High School Field

Serious neck and shoulder injuries

While walking to his car, during his daughter’s soccer
match, a mobile style goal fell over striking and pinning the victim beneath
it, injuring his neck and shoulder.

#74

011017CAA3024

10/5/01

9 year old female

Nampa,
ID

PublicPark

Serious facial injuries

While playing on and around an unanchored mobile soccer
goal, the victim and 3 friends toppled the heavy goal onto the victim,
striking her in the face, breaking her nose and requiring facial surgery.

#75

021001CAA1001

9/30/02

17 year old male

CharlesCounty, MD

Public School

Death

The victim and some classmates were moving a large heavy
soccer goal; to set it up right when it fell, striking the victim on the
head, killing him.

#76

031003HCN0003

10/01/03

6 year old male

Vernon Hills,
IL

PublicPark

Death

Player was at soccer practice in the goal area and
for unknown reason, the goal fell over and onto him. The goal was NOT
anchored.

#77

04/22/04

12 year old male

San Jose,
CA

Public School Field

Death

The victim were moving a large heavy soccer goal; to set
it up right when it fell, striking the victim on the head, killing him. Goal
was NOT anchored.

We were having a water break and there was a group of kids
standing in the goal.I turned to say something
to the other coach, hear a scream, and the goalpost (a huge f***ing iron
thing) is down and I've got a kid crawling around with blood spurting from
his head.Pouring out like he's in a
horror movie or something.Long story
short, he's in the hospital, his head is fine but he's got a cracked
vertebrae.

The hell of it is, after getting those emails from you I
always check the posts, and the damn things were staked down.But it had rained really hard, the ground
was soft, and when the post started over it just popped the stakes out like
they were staples or something.We put
the other goalpost down and the stakes for it came out easier than most
dandelions I've pulled.

#79

02/20/05

15 year old male

Owasso,
OK

PublicPark

Death

The victim and some classmates where moving a large heavy
soccer goal when it fell striking the victim on the head, killing him.

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=78258

#80

06/14/05

11 year old male

Houston,
TX

PublicPark

Death

Police said the victim was evidently playing in the park
with some friends when he pulled on a soccer goal and it fell on him. The
top bar struck him in the head. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3226514

#81

05/18/05

8 year old male

Piper, KS

Public School

Serious Injury, Broken femur

Four children, all second graders, were playing at recess.
One boy ran into an unanchored goal and it toppled over on to the boy who was
standing to the side of it.

#82

01/30/07

18 year old male

LakeWales, FL

CityPark

Death

18 Year old Corey Hawk jumped up to fix the net and the
pole came down on top of his head killing him. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070131/BREAKING/70131008

#83

05/07/07

10 year old male

Winchester,
Va

Public School

Death

10-year-old Hayden Barnes Ellias was playing goalkeeper
for the Winchester United under-11 team. They said he was positioned in the
goal on a MillbrookHigh School soccer field. Coaches
said action was taking place on the other side of the field when they heard a
loud crash.

#84

11/19/07

19 year old male

St. Louis,
MO

PublicPark

Death

Karrar Abudarb, a 19-year-old, was killed on November 19th
playing soccer in a park with 11 of his friends. The bizarre accident that
ended his life occurred in the city's WilmorePark,
at Hampton and Jamieson avenues, near his home.

About 7:45 p.m., Abudarb grabbed the metal crossbar of a
soccer goal and did some pull-ups, according to friends who saw him do it.
The goal tipped over and the bar crushed his skull.

#85

05/01/08

8 year old male

Phoenix,
AZ

YMCA

Death

An 8-year-old boy has died of injuries suffered while
playing soccer with some kids at the South Mountain YMCA in Phoenix.

Gabriel Mendoza died at St. Joseph's Hospital within hours of the
accident Thursday.

Phoenix police officers
said Mendoza
was playing on the soccer goal crossbar when the bar fell on him causing a
very serious injury.

http://www.kpho.com/news/16136449/detail.html#

#86 & #87

09/11/08

10 year old males

San Luis,
AZ

YMCA

Death

Head Injury

A 10-year-old student (Leonardo Herrera) was killed
Thursday morning when a soccer goalpost at RioColoradoElementary
School in San Luis,
Ariz., fell on him and another student.

The second student, also a 10-year-old boy, was being
treated Thursday at YumaRegionalMedicalCenter for what police called a
non-life-threatening head injury.

The boys, both fourth-grade students, were playing in the
area of the goalpost during recess about 7:30 a.m. when it toppled, Police
Capt. Javier Nuño said.

From: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/125576

#88

04/23/07

24 year old male

Piscataway, NJ

Rutgers University Busch Campus

Leg Injury

The victim and friends were “warming up” to participate in
a pick-up game and each were taking turns in goal. Unfortunately, when it was
the victim’s turn, there was a strong gust of wind that blew the post over on
to his leg. He received displaced fractures of his tibia and fibula that
required surgical intervention with plates and screws. There were no anchors
or sandbags available.

#89

04/21/09

16 year old female

Durango, CO

Bayfield High School

Spine Injury, Paralysis

Durango High School sophomore Alyssa Shelton was severely
injured when a soccer goal fell on her as she stretched on the ground with
three other girls at a Bayfield High School track meet.

A fourth-grade student died after an unsecure soccer goal
fell on him at school. Bentonville Police say Jonathan Nelson, 9, was playing
outside at Elm Tree Elementary Wednesday afternoon when the soccer goal fell
on top of him.

A nine-year-old North Carolina boy died after a heavy,
movable soccer goal fell onto his head. Juan Escalera was hit by the metal
goal after church Sunday morning on a field in Newton Grove in Harnett
County, east of Fayetteville.WTVD
reported Juan was transported to the hospital, where he died.
The family said Juan, a third grader, was playing with relatives and friends
when the goal fell. The goal was not secured to the ground, but it is not
exactly known what caused the goal to fall.

#94

07/04/12

5 year old female

Watson Lake, YT
CANADA

Local
field

Death

A group of children were playing on the field Wednesday
night when a soccer goal tipped and struck the young girl. There are
preliminary reports indicating a soccer goal tipped over striking the young
child on the back of the head

#95

07/29/14

15 year old female

Bradford, Ontario
CANADA

Community
Center field

Death

Two girls were playing on the field when a soccer goal
tipped over and trapped one of the girls under the crossbar.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/girl-15-dies-after-accident-on-bradford-soccer-field-1.2723261